David Fleck wrote on Sunday January 18, 2004:
> On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> >
> > I've written scores of scripts to hack text files, but this
> > one has me dead in the water.
> >
> > How can I delete all lines from /^PATTERN to EOF??
> >
> > ed - <<foo
> >
> > /^PATTERN
> > (.,$)d
> > w
> > q
> > foo
> >
> > or anything else I've tried doesn't do it. I could do it in
> > C/C++,but c'mon... ! Any solutions in sed, perl, or ed/ex?
>
> Well, you didn't mention awk, but...
>
>
> awk '$0 ~ /^PATTERN/ {x=1}; {if (x!=1) print $0}' < foo > bar
>
Wouldn't it be neater to do
nawk '/^PATTERN/ { exit } ; { print }'
?
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